I hesitate to call this a retro story because I don't want to feel old yet :)

[Pirouette]

I was quiet on the bus ride back (I wanted to tell Audrey what was wrong, but I didn’t want my roommate to overhear so I ended-up telling her later that night). Before meeting my Rho Gamma, I snuck off to a bathroom to call home on my cell-phone (this was back in the day when cell phones were bricks and not many people had them) even though the reception sucked. First I talked to my mother who told me to follow my heart. After all, I didn’t know if my roommate even wanted to be a Candy Land. My step-father wanted me to only put down Trouble because it would mean a lot to my mother, even though she didn’t say it was a big deal. After talking to my step-father, I knew exactly what I should do: the opposite of what he said (yeah, I was defiantly acting like a teenager at that moment).


My card looked like:

1. Candy Land
2. Trouble

Audrey had apparently been done before I finished my phone call, so as soon as I filled-out my final preference card and handed-it to my Rho Gamma, the two of us headed back to our dorm. Since this was before cell phones were very popular, we all had to stay in our rooms for several hours before bids were distributed later that night, just in case we did not receive a bid and our Rho Gammas would call our room phone. Needless to say, I wasn’t very happy about spending several hours locked in a room with my roommate and her boyfriend. I changed into sweats then climbed-up to my loft with one of my text books to try to get some of my homework done, but I found it hard to concentrate. Eventually I fell asleep and woke-up with my face lying in my French book two hours later.